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On Legacy and Preservation
(Adapted from a Twitter Thread) The ephemerality of online magazines shocks me sometimes. I have submitted a couple of times to...
LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR:COMMUNAL CONFLICT AND COHESION IN THE BRITISH TELEVISION CRIME DRAMA BROADCHURCH
Broadchurch is a British television crime series that was broadcast on ITV for three series between twenty thirteen and twenty seventeen....
Why I Abandoned New Atheism
Ok, first things first: New Atheism was an ideological movement that flourished in the early noughties, the proponents of which believed...
A Pet Theory of Poetic Translation
The following text was adapted from pieces of an academic essay I wrote on the translation of the Old-English text, 'The Battle of...
All Sad People Like Poetry: Penny Dreadful & the Romantics
The television series Penny Dreadful ( which was produced in a cooperative effort by Showtime and Sky Atlantic between 2014-2016) is a...
Richard Aldington’s Le Maudit: Discussion and Analysis
At the beginning of the twentieth century 2 major historic events shook the very foundations of western society. These events are The...
Translating the Ancients: A Comparison between Non-classical and Classical Translations
Introduction and Methodology In this essay I will examine the criteria used by reviewers to evaluate translations of classical poetical...
Magic Realism in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
1. Introduction Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) are two very distinct novels....
Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods: A Brief Discussion
Minor spoilers ahead for The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson is anything but a traditional...
Art Spiegelman’s Maus & The Limitations of Bearing Witness
Minor spoilers ahead for Art Spiegalman’s Maus. In the past I have observed that it is generally difficult for people to come to terms...
Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation: Otherness and Climate Change
Spoiler’s ahead for Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation. Annihilation is a work of unmitigated alienation. I agree with critics who consider...
The Last of Us and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Minor spoilers ahead for both The Last of Us and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. In Claire Colebrook’s article Extinction, it is briefly...
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Survival and The Apocalypse
Minor spoilers ahead for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road left many readers conflicted. One thing that compelled me...
Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic: Silence and Injustice
Minor spoilers ahead for Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic The Buddha in the Attic is primarily a work that discusses and depicts...
Ian McEwan's Solar: Satire & Climate Action
Spoilers ahead for Ian McEwan’s Solar: While Solar could be said to be a humorous and enjoyable novel, when one regards its satire more...
Post Paroxetine
or HOW NOT TO ENCOURAGE YOUR OWN SELF-DESTRUCTION
1. Introduction Mental health issues are a widespread problem across the developed world and more and more people are taking...
HOW NOT TO ENCOURAGE SOMEONE’S SELF-DESTRUCTION
I once did a rant in which I raged against people who respond to the mental difficulties of other people by posting or sending clichéd...
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